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June 8, 2009 Monday

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Straits Times Headlines

Income gap narrows with $1.1b boost for the needy

S'pore wins at Venice Biennale

Inside

Should Govt upgrade its growth forecast?

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What it should have been

Faulty speed sensors may be behind crash

Doctors, ambulance service 'dismissed his condition'

Big retailers set up shop in night markets

'China will bounce back faster and help to lift Asia'

MM Lee visits KL and four Malaysian states

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Refugee crisis could worsen

US country artists try abroad

Obama ladies wind up Paris trip

2 dead in chopper crash

Suspect warns of violence

Rossi quits as Lazio coach

China condemns Dalai Lama award

Police fire on protesters

Comedian shaves head for troops

O'Driscoll, Roberts pair up

McLaren concedes defeat

Bundesliga ticket sales top

Merkel eyes second term **

Suspect warns of violence

WICHITA (Kansas) - ABORTION providers say that threats of more slayings from a man accused in the shooting death of a high-profile Kansas abortion doctor proves the existence of a 'violent, terrorist movement' coalescing around the issue.

Scott Roeder called The Associated Press on Sunday from the Sedgwick County jail, where he's being held on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated assault in the shooting death of Dr. George Tiller last week at the doctor's church in Wichita.

No mixing to make rose wine

BRUSSELS - THE European Commission announced on Monday that it had dropped plans to allow rose wine to be made by mixing red and white wines, a victory for producers in France and Italy.

The decision came following intense lobbying of the commission, the European Union's executive arm, by organisations representing Europe's wine-making sector.

Man sues over 55-hour erection

NEW YORK - FORMER prison inmate, Dawud Yaduallah is suing a nurse in the United States, claiming that he suffered an erection that lasted 55 hours as a side effect of medication he had been given.

Yaduallah, 43, said he had to wait more than two days before being taken from the New York prison to hospital for treatment, reported The New York Post on Monday.

Merkel eyes second term

BERLIN - GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel's bid to win a second term in power in September was boosted Monday as final European election results showed her centre-right party had trounced her Social Democrat rivals.

New arms spending record

Flu hits 25,000 cases

Airlines pledge emission cap

Yes to female royal succession

Baghdad bus blast kills 7

NZ has 1st local flu case

5.7 quake rocks Honduras

Palin plagiarised Gingrich?

Violence flares in Gaza border

Militants respond to Obama

EU's Conservatives score

Europe's far right gains ground